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Thousands Of Afghan Women Have Found Refuge In Shelters Funded By West

Thousands Of Afghan Women Have Found Refuge In Shelters Funded By West
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Associate Editor of Impact, The Huffington Post

This picture taken in Kabul on October 12, 2011 shows Afghan women attending a computing class at a shelter run by women for Afghan women. In the war-torn country, Afghan women often oppressed by poverty, family disputes, forced marriage or discrimination. Women's right in Afghanistan risk being forgotten as international troops withdraw and the government struggles for a peace deal 10 years after the Taliban were ousted, report by Oxfam and ActionAid said. AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY (Photo credit should read ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images)
This picture taken in Kabul on October 12, 2011 shows Afghan women attending a computing class at a shelter run by women for Afghan women. In the war-torn country, Afghan women often oppressed by poverty, family disputes, forced marriage or discrimination. Women's right in Afghanistan risk being forgotten as international troops withdraw and the government struggles for a peace deal 10 years after the Taliban were ousted, report by Oxfam and ActionAid said. AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY (Photo credit should read ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images)

KABUL, Afghanistan — Faheema stood trembling in the courtyard of the large house, steeling herself for the meeting with her family.

She took a deep breath and ran inside, her black abaya swirling around her, and fell to the floor at her uncle’s feet, hugging his knees, her face pressed against him, her shoulders heaving.

The reproaches came immediately. “How could you do this?” her uncle said. “You were always so sweet to everyone. How could you have done this?”

What Faheema, 21, had done was to run away from her home in eastern Afghanistan with the man she loved. She left behind her large family and the man that her family had promised her to. Although her uncle’s words at first seemed kind, his tone had a dangerous edge: Faheema had to come home.

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